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"Just finished Genesis. I can see why Joseph and the coat is what got made into a musical. It was the one story that approximated a compelling story with character arcs and potential lessons to take away. Though I was touched by the reunion of Isaac and Esau before that." — Oct 04, 2025 02:56PM
"Just finished Genesis. I can see why Joseph and the coat is what got made into a musical. It was the one story that approximated a compelling story with character arcs and potential lessons to take away. Though I was touched by the reunion of Isaac and Esau before that." — Oct 04, 2025 02:56PM
“Even though my brothers do me just like that, I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back”
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“Another possibility, given the strategic and commercial importance of Troy, perched as she was on the Dardanelles Strait, the Hellespont, is that some kind of conflict over tariffs and the passage of commerce erupted between the kingdoms of the western and eastern Aegean. Hard for us to credit it, so sophisticated and wise are we today. But back then, the primitive fools could find themselves sucked into trade wars. Ha!”
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
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“It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication; after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.”
― Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of the True and Fabulous Theology
― Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of the True and Fabulous Theology
Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
103 books
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24 friends
78 books
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908 books
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359 books
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24 friends
1,145 books
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579 friends
67 books
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7 friends
45 books
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20 friends
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